Russians lose access to Starlink, but Ukraine 🇺🇦 keeps fighting! Big news here. An article and tweets claim that Russia has halted attacks along the front. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/4hIqg2AARY

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3686nzexp3o

How sad. Never mind.

Excellent 

Russian troops are generally underfed. This is a big deal, and goes beyond health of the Russian soldiers. Food = motivation to go on patrol, to do all the little extra things that soldiers need to do to be good at their job. The only time that this issue of relative hunger might work out for a while is if one party is undsiege and there really isn't a lot to do for the defenders. But this isn't like that. The Russians have to want to Winn amd they won't care if they aren't fed.

Ukraine has been hammering russia's supply trucks with its drones and this will continue to russia's detriment

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/7a6BSuNLFE

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/7a6BSuNLFE

At this point, the whole prediction that Ukraine would be Russia's next Afghanistan seems to not only be justified, but proven a significant understatement. Hopefully people are watching those nukes similarly to how they did with the USSR fall.

1. Ukrainian forces hit Russian command post and ammo depot, destroy large batch of drones – General Staff
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/02/09/8020119/

2.EU Is Readying Options to Give Ukraine Gradual Membership Rights
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-09/eu-is-readying-options-to-give-ukraine-gradual-membership-rights?embedded-checkout=true


3. Ukraine Unveils SEEDIS Autonomous Drone Interceptor With AI, 320 km/h Top Speed to Counter Aerial Threats
https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-unveils-seedis-autonomous-drone-interceptor-with-ai-320-kmh-top-speed-to-counter-aerial-threats-15741

4. Russia experience record levels of wage payment arrears for the public sector employees. In other words, they don't have $$$$ to pay because they put everything to the military like the dumbass Spartans did back in their day.


https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/4088961-russia-faces-record-wage-payment-arrears-ccd.html

Paul Warburg on Russia losing Starlink.  He basically says that Russia is getting Ukrainian citizens to sign up for Starlink and give them the equipment.  This reeks of desperation, and that Russia doesn't have a viable alternative to Starlink.  I've read elsewhere that Ukraine is trying to capitalize on this, and is having some limited offensives in various areas.  I'll let y'all know if that turns into anything big.  

Ukrainian FP-5 missle hits key Russian GRAU arsenal

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/s/19t8xQEDJd

Ukraine takes 200 square kilometres in 5 days.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-19/ukraine-reclaims-territory-as-musk-blocks-russian-army-internet/106356642

I’m still reading up on what that means, but I’ve been hearing everything from 13 days to 3 months of Russian gains. That it has a lot to do with their disorganization from Starlink going down. I didn’t realize Elon was providing military aid to Russia. Doesn’t surprise me; but his legal consequences for violating sanctions (and Other laws he’s broken) are a topic all on its own.